House Democrats are clashing over rules for the new Congress before it even opens, with three members slamming a budget provision they say will hamper their plans for health care and other priorities.

The House’s rules package for the Congress that convenes Thursday contains what’s known as a pay-as-you-go provision, which would require new spending to be offset with either tax increases or budget cuts.

"Because men have lost the objective basis of certainty of knowledge of the thing in which they are working, more and more I fear we are going to find them manipulating science according to their own sociological or political desires rather than standing upon concrete objectivity." Francis A. Schaeffer

Well, Ms. Occasionally-Coherent and her fellow travelers appear to believe that government spending is the source of all economic progress, and such progress can only be made by taking money from the undeserving rich who are simply hoarding it.

“Here’s the truth. Life begins at conception. Government is too big. Our taxes are too high. And our car insurance is too expensive. President Trump is doing a great job. Facts matter more than feelings. The Second Amendment is self-explanatory. And as a doctor, I can assure you there are only two genders.”

Well, Ms. Occasionally-Coherent and her fellow travelers appear to believe that government spending is the source of all economic progress, and such progress can only be made by taking money from the undeserving rich who are simply hoarding it.

Welcome to Cuba, and Venezuela. But not for them, of course.

Unfortunately, the "rich" include anyone making fifty cents over poverty level....

There are no "Socialists", no "Progressives", only Communists, with every negative image that totalitarianism might muster, demanding fealty and conformity to their views, with a legacy of 150,000,000 dead and counting.

There are no "Socialists", no "Progressives", only Communists, with every negative image that totalitarianism might muster, demanding fealty and conformity to their views, with a legacy of 150,000,000 dead and counting.